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SalaryFriday 19 April 2024
Salary Range
£66,861 - £74,290
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Hybrid Working, Job Share
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer - Automation & Frameworks
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: Edinburgh, Halifax, Bristol, Manchester
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
Are you passionate for helping deliver change across LBG? We're recruiting for a dedicated individual to join our Quality Engineering Centre of Excellence Automation & Frameworks team!
In the Chief Technology Office, we drive Engineering Excellence and Efficiency throughout the organisation, through the delivery of industry leading practices, standard tooling, ways of working, and learning pathways for our engineers through our centres of excellence.
We need an advocate for Quality Engineering (QE), identifying and supporting teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing in industry best practice and tooling. In this role, we’d like to see a passion for helping and mentoring people, disseminating your knowledge and experience to your team.
Working in our QE Centre of Excellence (QECoE), you'll have a fantastic understanding of the Software Quality Assurance Lifecycle. It's crucial that you have proficient influencing skills and ability to work well with collaborators, e.g. Platform Team / Engineering Leads, understanding the complexities the Platform Teams encounter and implementing the appropriate frameworks.
You'll need to be adaptable, including working alongside the other feature teams within QECoE which are: QE Test Tooling, Security & Accessibility, QE Community & Skills and QE Integration Solutions, as well as working in close collaboration with the other teams in Engineering Services.
You’ll be responsible for creating, maintaining, and embedding the frameworks across LBG, while informally coaching and mentoring others and investing in your own personal development.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
- Accomplished Test Automation Engineer helping to develop a robust and future-facing Automation & Frameworks.
- Highly experienced in creating test frameworks to aid the testing of complex code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise.
- Ability to analyse and evaluate the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develop and amend them as necessary (with guidance from senior colleagues). You might also understand how to supervise activities performed by a product development/specialist team.
- Be highly competent in one of the following languages: C#, Java, Javascript/typescript.
And any experience of these would be really useful
- It would be desirable for you to have a deep understanding of Frameworks and at least one automation framework, such as UFT, Selenium, Playwright.
- Containerisation experience e.g docker.
- CI/CD experience e.g Jenkins.
- Knowledge on other languages.
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
